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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>> > Sometimes ideas can get elected even
though the candidate<BR>> > expressing them
doesn't.<BR></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2> <BR>> I don't agree Pat. An idea
won't be elected President. The presidency<BR>> is a role. It needs to be
filled by a person and people come with warts<BR>> and all.<BR></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>A Socialist Party candidate was never elected
President of the US,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>but, in effect, their ideas
were...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>F.D.R., in particular, was attacked by the leader
of the Socialist</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Party, Eugene Debs, and other Socialist campaigners
as an </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>opportunistic </FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>thief
of Socialist Party platform planks.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Pat Fallon</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>pfallon@ptd.net</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>